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Gospel of Luke

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I showed up at the temple every day just praying that God would let me live long enough to see the Messiah. He did.

a)

Jude

b)

Matthew

c)

Simeon

d)

Thomas

e)

Longinus

2.

We were chosen to see the baby Jesus before anyone else (in Luke's Gospel).

a)

Camel drivers

b)

Tax collectors

c)

Shepherds

d)

Stable workers

e)

Vineyard workers

3.

Jesus told the fishermen to do what to catch some fish?

a)

Use the right nets

b)

Use the right bait

c)

Pull out into the deep

d)

Get a bigger boat

e)

Call out to the fish with songs of gladness

4.

In that scene when they caught a whole bunch of fish, who didn't feel worthy of Jesus' help?

a)

Judas

b)

Simon Peter

c)

Luke himself

d)

James

e)

John

5.

The notion that sin is a reflection of an empty heart and, thus, when our hearts are empty we make poor choices, but when are hearts are full of love we make good choices, goes back to what scene?

a)

The woman who bathes Jesus' feet with her tears

b)

The Prodigal Son

c)

The Good Samaritan

d)

The Lost Sheep

6.

Samaritans were:

a)

100% Jewish

b)

Half Jewish

c)

Non-Jewish

7.

Splangknizomai means:

a)

Wisdom

b)

Compassion

c)

Honor

d)

Pity

e)

Love

8.

I was really ticked at my lazy sister for sitting at Jesus’ feet while I was doing all the work!

a)

Naomi

b)

Anna

c)

Martha

d)

Abigail

9.

After being ticked off at my lazy sister for not doing any of the housework, Jesus helped me realize that she was fulfilling the necessary role of what?

a)

Being a disciple who develops the interior life

b)

Writing down Jesus’ words for future generations

c)

Being one in dialogue about God’s ways so that we can struggle our ways to deeper intellectual insights and understanding

d)

Keeping Jesus company so he didn’t have to be lonely

10.

The Deathbed meditation, with its specific focus on thinking about the most important things in life from the perspective of the end of our lives, is most germane (fitting and appropriate) to which story?

a)

Prodigal Son

b)

Birth of Jesus

c)

Death of Jesus

d)

Rich Man who built bigger barns

e)

Pharisee and Tax Collector

11.

One man begged that the ______ tree would not be cut down until he had been given another year to try to make it bear fruit. This is symbolic of not giving up on people but instead working to convert their hearts to be good and loving people.

a)

Palm

b)

Date

c)

Sycamore

d)

Pecan

e)

Fig

12.

"Every saint has a(n) ______________, every sinner has a(n) ________________.”

a)

Story, excuse

b)

Purpose, excuse

c)

Purpose, purpose

d)

Past, future

e)

Hope, hate

13.

We often look for ourselves first in a group picture, and even if everyone else looks great, we are upset if we don’t. Also, we are often pretty upset if someone else gets a shout out or an award that we thought we deserved. These are ideas at the core of which story?

a)

Prodigal Son

b)

Good Samaritan

c)

Pharisee and Tax Collector

d)

Places of honor at table

e)

Rich Man and Lazarus

14.

We now know that young violent all criminals all had a really hard time with concentration, but that they can be assisted and it can get better. We also know that sometimes people do horrible things (such as the boy I taught who killed his own parents), but that there is often a history of trauma or abuse that was at work. In the end then, we are called to be slow to judge and simply do whatever we can to help love and assist those who are in bad places in their lives. This whole idea is at the heart of which scene?

a)

Rich Man and Lazarus

b)

Lost Sheep

c)

Fig Tree

d)

Man who built bigger barns

e)

Miraculous draft of fish

15.

There are no stories that talk about Hell in Luke, only stories that talk about Heaven

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Who really looked down on other people because he was so darned proud of himself?

a)

Zacchaeus

b)

Simon Peter

c)

The Tax Collector

d)

Pontius Pilate

e)

The Pharisee

17.

Who climbed up the sycamore tree to get a better look at Jesus?

a)

Zacchaeus

b)

The Pharisee

c)

Martha

d)

Mary

e)

The Rich Man

18.

What did Jesus do when he gazed down upon Jerusalem soon before he was to be killed?

a)

Cursed them

b)

Warned them one last time to convert their hearts

c)

Blessed them

d)

Wept for them

e)

Was transfigured before their eyes

19.

"Much will be demanded from those whom much has been given” also implies that:

a)

Some people are doing the best they can with what they’ve got, but what they’ve got isn’t much

b)

The road to heaven is a very narrow one because all of us have been given what we need to be saved

c)

God will show us the book of deeds of our lives and if our deeds are not numerous enough we will have to suffer the consequences.

20.

Jesus says on the cross in Luke, “Father,____________________”

a)

I thirst

b)

I return my life to you

c)

Forgive them, for they know not what they do

d)

Not my will, but your will be done

21.

Though none of us is Jesus, perhaps the summit of the Christian message is that we can close the gap between ourselves and Jesus with respect to being a person of love, and in so doing, we will even find the power to:

a)

Do miraculous things

b)

No longer feel anger

c)

Love our enemies

d)

Stop worrying

22.

Some people object to the idea of the good and bad thieves on the cross because:

a)

It seems unfair that a person could be bad their whole life and give a deathbed confession and still go to Heaven.

b)

Only God can send someone to Heaven of Hell--Jesus was not allowed to do that

c)

Only the good thief was saved--it should have been both if Christianity is really founded on love and mercy

23.

What's in your "sycamore tree"? (write a good paragraph)

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